Are You Tough Enough for Chrysler’s ‘Man Van’?

By

Jeff Bennett

Feb 9, 2011 12:01 am ET

This isn’t your mother’s minivan any more.

Tricked out with a standard black-on-black interior, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, no roof rack and a V-6 engine, Chrysler Group LLC is set to pull the wraps off its new Dodge Caravan R/T – known more appropriately as the Man Van – at the Chicago Auto Show Wednesday.

“When you sit behind the steering wheel you will feel you are driving a sports car. You completely forget, as long as you don’t look behind you, you forget you are driving a minivan,” said Dodge Chief Executive Ralph Gilles on the eve of the Chicago Auto Show.

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